Today's News

With its two-story wooden frame houses and large wrap-around porches, Chesterfield Avenue was pretty much like every other neighborhood around the Lancaster city limits.
On muggy nights, neighbors walked about to enjoy the slightly cool summers breezes, which rarely blew.
Aglow with the flicker of a about a half dozen citronella candles, our side porch became a gathering place. It’s hard to rock and carry on a decent conversation when swatting at “skeeters.”

Jody Miles is back. And so is that sense of humor and smile God gave her.
Miles, 57, grins every time she reads Jeremiah 29:11 and she is grinning more each day as she recovers from a liver transplant.
That verse of Scripture has been a big comfort for the co-founder of Christian Services in the last two years.
Miles has all but forgotten the numerous setbacks from esophageal surgery and a cat bite in July that punted her from the top of the liver transplant list at the Medical University of South Carolina.

Most of the major players in a controversial landfill project have become well known over the last few weeks, though a new voice added to the mix this week.

One day before Griffin Brothers Enterprises, owners of Mining Road Landfill near S.C. 903, withdrew an application to expand their property to include a Class 3 solid waste landfill, a representative from Waste Management weighed in on the project.

Lancaster County Council unanimously approved final reading of an ordinance to establish the new district at its meeting Tuesday night.

The new district establishes funding for an Indian Land Fire Protection District through rates and charges to Indian Land property owners. The ordinance also repeals the special tax districts in the Panhandle neighborhoods of Sun City Carolina Lakes, Edenmoor and Belair.

Authorities say the Lancaster woman whose body was found Wednesday in Kershaw County died from a shortage of oxygen.

Kershaw County deputies found Elizabeth Marie Evans’ body in a wooded area in Camden after they arrested her estranged husband, Brian Franklin Evans, earlier that day.

Brian Evans, 46, had been driving a truck that matched the description of a vehicle belonging to Gerry Wayne Geiger. Authorities had found Geiger dead at his house the day before from multiple gunshot wounds and head trauma.